TOMATO AGAMOUS1 and ARLEQUIN/TOMATO AGAMOUS-LIKE1 MADS-box genes have redundant and divergent functions required for tomato reproductive development

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 91, Issue 4-5, 2016, Pages 513-531

  Gimenez, Estela ^a   Castañeda, Laura ^a   Pineda, Benito ^b   Pan, Irvin L ^c   Moreno, Vicente ^b   Angosto, Trinidad ^a   Lozano, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c STONEHILL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional diversification; Redundancy; Reproductive development; Solanum lycopersicum; TAG1; TAGL1

Indexed keywords

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PLANT PROTEIN;

FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT GENE; REPRODUCTION; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84964523731     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: 15735028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-016-0485-4     Document Type: Article

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